anticlimax
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Fox News’ Peter Doocy was among the unsatisfied, and he laid into Leavitt over the anticlimax.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025
In 2017, the Lions and New Zealand shared the series after the deciding third Test finished 15-15, with captain Sam Warburton saying it was "a bit of an anticlimax for the players".
From BBC • May 27, 2025
Indeed, the end even of a great mystery can feel like an anticlimax.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023
And a final 10-game stretch against their closest rivals, keenly anticipated for weeks, turned into a massive anticlimax.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2023
We had hiked twenty-two miles in two days—a highly respectable distance for us—but a distinct listlessness and sense of anticlimax, a kind of midmountain lassitude, had set in.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing anticlimax
Power Prefix: Anti
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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